Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Kim Jong Il received the Chinese government's special envoy to North Korea Dai Bingguo, deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, and his party on July 14 and hosted a dinner in honor of the guests. On July 16, Kim Jong Il visited military unit 264 of the Korean People's Army (KPA). Another inspection visit was made to military unit 581, a recipient of "Oh Jung Heup's Seventh Regiment Title." Accompanied by Kim Yong Chun, chief of KPA general staff, Li Myung Su, Hyun Chol Hae and Park Jae Kyung, generals in the KPA, Kim stressed, in both visits, the importance of strengthening the troops' combat capabilities.

Accompanied by Kim Yong Chun, chief of KPA general staff, Kim Jong Il made an on-site guidance visit to the Eorangcheon Power Station construction site in Northern Hamgyong Province (date unknown) and exhorted workers "to pool their strengths so that the construction work will be completed ahead of schedule."

The North Korean Central Broadcasting Station reported that during the period from July 17 to July 19, an average rainfall of 20mm to 50mm was recorded in Pyongyang, Northern and Southern Pyongan providence, Nampo, Northern Hwanghae Province and Southern Hamgyong Province. During the same period, average rainfall was 50mm to 100mm in Southern Hwanghae Province, Northern Hamgyong Province and Kangwon Province and 10mm to 20mm in Jagang Province and Yanggang Province.

The North Korean Central Broadcasting Station reported that "Dai Bingguo, the Chinese government's special envoy to North Korea, met with Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, and Pak Nam Sun, Foreign Minister. The report added that "the Chinese envoy, on July 12, had extensive discussions with Kang Sok Ju, First Deputy Foreign Minister, on the nuclear problem between the DPRK and the U.S."

The North Korean Central Broadcasting Station reported that "If we renounce our nuclear program, the U.S. must also reciprocate by abandoning its policy of antagonism vis-a-vis the DPRK" and that "if this principle is not upheld, there will be no hope of improvement in relations between the two countries and we will have no choice but to enter into a war, which will have catastrophic consequences."

Pyongyang Broadcasting Station propagandized that "as we live in a world in which the U.S. imperialists' campaigns are more vicious and atrocious than ever before, the youths and students of South Korea must come to the realization that they are the agents of national reunification and that they must rise to take an active part in the autonomous, patriotic, anti-U.S. struggle.

Pyongyang Broadcasting Station consistently made groundless claims that "the South Korean Defense Ministry's description of the North Korean regime, its armed forces and its people as South Korea's 'main enemies' in a teaching aid distributed to the military units for servicemen education programs vividly manifests the ministry's true identity as a treacherous, anti-nation, anti-reunification entity."